something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
A gorilla, hog, raccoon, human are examples of .....
What are Omnivores?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materils
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are nonliving components in a forest ecosystem?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
Can overhunting of animals within an ecosystem have an impact on the ecosystem? Why?
Yes, overhunting of the animals could cause the other consumers to find a new place to live or they could die without their food source.
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
In the a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
Environmental changes happen all the time. Some of these changes are easy to spot. For example, the figure below shows a sign that you might see while riding along a road in many places.
What can you conclude about environmental changes after seeing this sign?
Humans can destroy habitats.
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
What does a food web show
How animals rely on each other in an environment to live.
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
The following picture shows a prickly pear, which has spiny, flat joints and thick, rounded stems that store water.
To which of the following types of environments is a prickly pear best suited?
What is the desert?
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
A relationship when one organism lives on or in another for nourishment.
What is parasitism?
All energy flow flows in this.
What is a food or web pyramid?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
Two basic types of ecosystems are...
What are terrestrial and aquatic ecisystems?
A 'role' or 'function' of an organisms ______ includes what it eats.
What is a niche?
The following picture shows a wetland and the plants that grow there.
Which of the following conditions do the plants shown have to cope with?
What is 'wet soil?'
There are only a few different species of plants, animals, and insects so there is low __________.
What is low diversity?
Look at the plants in the picture below.
Which abiotic factor most likely controls where the plants in this environment live?
What part of an ecosystem are a swarm of bees?
What is a population?
If an insect species lives in only a certain type of plant and that plant is removed, what part of the insects’ life is being affected?
What is its niche?
How are cacti able to survive in the desert with very little rainfall?
Cacti have long roots and leaves that store water.
Microscopic animal that eats phytoplankton and zooplankton.
What are Zooplankton
Which of the following is the main feature of the environment to which the plants shown in the figure have adapted?
What is the lack of water?